Careful Rick Howell ‘bout to drop ya a C&D for stealing his technology
These are great examples of 3D modelling and animation. All are interesting to go through.
Doomed to failure, the Nevada toe was meant to be set up with zero forward pressure. The explodomat heel needed to have some forward pressure so that you didn't instantly walk out of it.
The best binding of the era, its only flaw was the cam that the rollers needed to overcome for release. My solution was to ski fast so there was loads of energy to blow the boots out when needed. I can say that in thousands of hours of skiing on these bindings, I never once had a pre-release or a late release, nor did I ever 'walk' out of my skis when the flex of the ski changed the forward pressure on the toe and caused too much friction for effective release. Since then, I don't believe bindings have become all that much better. Claims of all angle release reducing injuries may be true, but pre-release is much more common in my opinion.
Those rollers wore out in no time and became egg shaped and/or lose.The best binding of the era, its only flaw was the cam that the rollers needed to overcome for release. My solution was to ski fast so there was loads of energy to blow the boots out when needed. I can say that in thousands of hours of skiing on these bindings, I never once had a pre-release or a late release, nor did I ever 'walk' out of my skis when the flex of the ski changed the forward pressure on the toe and caused too much friction for effective release. Since then, I don't believe bindings have become all that much better. Claims of all angle release reducing injuries may be true, but pre-release is much more common in my opinion.
Hmm, interesting. I probably skied 200 to 300 days on one pair of S 505's without the rollers getting far out of round. The problem with Nevada's was that they required zero forward pressure on the toe, to get full elasticity. When the ski flexed the distance between the heel and the toe was reduced, and as torque was increased the toe would not return to its center point. The solution was that most users used too high settings for the toe. Statistically Nevada's caused more injuries per user than Solomon, Tyrolia or Marker. My guess is that you like other good skiers had the suckers cranked down hard.Those rollers wore out in no time and became egg shaped and/or lose.
I'd take Look Nevada/Grand Prix Comps (red) over them every time.
Most of the mixing and matching of toe and heels ended by the early to mid 70's. Binding manufacturers strongly discouraged the mix and match idea for several reasons but it did wake them up to what customers wanted. Most of the customers wanted the step in heel like the Tyrolia Clix 90 for it's easy in and out features.Yes, I've got a Release Check here in the shop (and a VSSE tester too).
Not a Salomon hater at all. Almost all the early Equipe models were fantastic and durable. Still ski some of them.
The 60's through the early 90's were interesting time for ski bindings. Everyone trying different ways to get things done. Lots of mixing and matching different brands for toe pieces and heels too.
Bill, thank you! I do enjoy this and eventually I will get all the videos up to the voice over of my wife, and the short history of the companies that produce them.Well @RickyG has once again upped his game with these videos!
I can't thank you enough for preserving all these great bindings for folks to learn about their function, design and history.
Just a fantastic job.
Thank you Ricky!